In personal files, from childhood to adulthood, we always have to fill in one item, that is, interests and hobbies.
Zhang Dai said, "You can't make friends with people without quirks, because they don't have deep affection; you can't make friends with people without flaws, because they don't have true energy." It is said that a person cannot live without his own preferences. From personal preferences, we can see many things, such as temperament, temper, personality, interest, etc.
If a person lives just to cope with life and is driven forward by life, day after day, year after year, wouldn’t that be too boring? Or to put it more bluntly, life is boring and boring.
“Flowers cannot be without butterflies, mountains cannot be without springs, rocks cannot be without moss, water cannot be without algae, trees cannot be without wisteria, and people cannot be without quirks.” This is what Zhang Chao said. The explanation of hobbies and interests in "Youmengying". Flowers, mountains, rocks, water, and trees are all familiar to everyone. If a flower blooms without butterflies to enjoy it, how lost and lonely it would be! How boring and boring it would be if there were no clear springs and trickles of water in a mountain!
Yuan Hongdao said it right, when I look at the people in the world who are hateful in appearance, they all have innocent ears.
It can be seen that people cannot be without their quirks.
I recently encountered a book called "Waiting for a Flower to Bloom". The author, Mr. Lin Dihuan, said at the beginning of the preface that this is a book about the fun of life. His preface is well written, saying that there are many hobbies, such as drinking, playing mahjong, shopping, watching movies, playing games and other mindless hobbies, which are just pastimes and are part of a casual life.
Think about it, it really is. Indulging in hobbies such as drinking and gaming is not beneficial to life.
We all hope that we can live well, live interestingly, and live poetically. Mr. Lin Dihuan said that poetry actually has nothing to do with writing poetry. Poetry should be a kind of fun. To make yourself an interesting person, mindless hobbies do not challenge your intelligence.
He told about a businessman friend who loved fishing. His dream was to catch a grouper weighing more than two kilograms. For this reason, his friend spent a lot of time and energy researching and trying, but never realized his dream. Once, Mr. Lin Dihuan and he were fishing on an island in Zhuhai. They spent the night on an isolated reef in the sea. They still didn't catch any fish, but they saw the sunrise on the sea that few people can see. The knowledge of astronomy and geography that his friend dabbled in in order to catch fish made him an expert in astronomical air pressure and geographical tides, opening the entrance to another world for him.
“You can do carpentry, spending all your spare time in order to build a perfect little stool; you can go shooting insects, and you can squat in the forest for three days waiting for a cicada to shed its shell. "You can practice calligraphy. In order to write Ouyang Xun well, you can outline and write every word in the entire Jiucheng Palace 10,000 times; you can walk the entire Tea Horse Road in order to drink a cup of good tea. "
Hobbies like this, although they are trivial, can make people become an interesting and poetic person. The result is actually not very important. What is important is what we experience in the process, allowing us to find ourselves. As a result, the heart is rich and has the ability to be alone. "There is no need to establish a sense of presence, and there is no need to call friends for wine and meat."
My favorite quote from Mr. Lin Dihuan is that waiting for a flower to bloom with a lot of patience and a smile has a very important meaning. meaning of life.
Every hobby is a flower. The beauty of a flower is not actually the moment it blooms, but the process of slowly spreading its life from a seed in the soil to the earth, growing into a plant bit by bit. We take care of it with sincerity and when we wait for the flowers to bloom, they are already beautiful.
(Qing Xian/Text)